Current understanding of asthma pathogenesis and biomarkers

N Habib, MA Pasha, DD Tang - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Asthma is a heterogeneous lung disease with variable phenotypes (clinical presentations)
and distinctive endotypes (mechanisms). Over the last decade, considerable efforts have …

After asthma: redefining airways diseases

ID Pavord, R Beasley, A Agusti, GP Anderson, E Bel… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Asthma is responsible for considerable global morbidity and health-care
costs. Substantial progress was made against key outcomes such as hospital admissions …

Role of biologics in asthma

MC McGregor, JG Krings, P Nair… - American journal of …, 2019 - atsjournals.org
Patients with severe uncontrolled asthma have disproportionally high morbidity and
healthcare utilization as compared with their peers with well-controlled disease. Although …

Benralizumab, an anti-interleukin-5 receptor α monoclonal antibody, as add-on treatment for patients with severe, uncontrolled, eosinophilic asthma (CALIMA): a …

JM FitzGerald, ER Bleecker, P Nair, S Korn, K Ohta… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Benralizumab is a humanised, afucosylated, anti-interleukin-5 receptor α
monoclonal antibody that induces direct, rapid, and nearly complete depletion of …

Efficacy and safety of treatment with biologicals (benralizumab, dupilumab, mepolizumab, omalizumab and reslizumab) for severe eosinophilic asthma. A systematic …

I Agache, J Beltran, C Akdis, M Akdis… - Allergy, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Five biologicals have been approved for severe eosinophilic asthma, a well‐recognized
phenotype. Systematic reviews (SR) evaluated the efficacy and safety of benralizumab …

Mepolizumab for urban children with exacerbation-prone eosinophilic asthma in the USA (MUPPITS-2): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel …

DJ Jackson, LB Bacharier, PJ Gergen, L Gagalis… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Black and Hispanic children living in urban environments in the USA
have an excess burden of morbidity and mortality from asthma. Therapies directed at the …

Asthma exacerbations: pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment

JR Castillo, SP Peters, WW Busse - The Journal of Allergy and Clinical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Guideline-based management of asthma focuses on disease severity and choosing the
appropriate medical therapy to control symptoms and reduce the risk of exacerbations …

Targeting key proximal drivers of type 2 inflammation in disease

NA Gandhi, BL Bennett, NMH Graham… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2016 - nature.com
Systemic type 2 inflammation encompassing T helper 2 (TH2)-type responses is emerging
as a unifying feature of both classically defined allergic diseases, such as asthma, and a …

Asthma in children and adults—what are the differences and what can they tell us about asthma?

M Trivedi, E Denton - Frontiers in pediatrics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Asthma varies considerably across the life course. Childhood asthma is known for its overall
high prevalence with a male predominance prior to puberty, common remission, and rare …

International ERS/ATS guidelines on definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma

KF Chung, SE Wenzel, JL Brozek… - European respiratory …, 2014 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Severe or therapy-resistant asthma is increasingly recognised as a major unmet need. A
Task Force, supported by the European Respiratory Society and American Thoracic Society …